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Pelasgians

A prehistoric people inhabiting Greece, Asia Minor and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea as early as the third millennium BCE.

The historian Herodotus relates the story that when the Pelasgians were driven from Attika (Attica), they kidnapped a number of Athenian women and took them to the island of Lemnos; the women were defiant and taught their children to act and speak like Athenians; the Pelasgians killed the captive mothers and children and thus the term Lemnian Deeds became an enduring insult to the honor and manhood of the inhabitants of Lemnos.

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